Yik Chan Chin（钱忆亲）

Associate Professor，

School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University

Research Pages

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1362-7481

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yik_Chan_Chin

http://ssrn.com/author=1377946

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=u41w5b4AAAAJ&hl=en

Profile

Dr. Yik Chan Chin is an Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University.  Dr. Chin’s research interests include Internet governance, media and communications policies, regulation and law.  Drawing on her research background in computer science, communication, and law, Dr. Chin has been devoted to studying policy and governance issues of information communication technology (ICT) from an interdisciplinary perspective, explaining how the social foundation promotes changes in the ICT systems,  ICT policies, regulation and governance. Her current research focuses on the comparative Internet governance and social media ethics. Major interdisciplinary research papers are published in Communication, Law and Political Science journals.

Dr. Chin recently co-edited a special issue on comparative platform governance studies for the leading internet policy journal “Policy & Internet” (Muller, Milton & Yik Chan Chin (2022) Editorial: Platform governance by competing systems of political economy: The United States and China. Policy& Internet, 14, 240-242. https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.306).

Her 2020 book chapter "Internet Governance in China" which is rated by Professor Herbert Burkert of the University of Zurich in Switzerland as "one of the best recent academic works related to technology law" https://cyber.jotwell.com/power-lest-it-should-be-forgotten/)

Her last article “Governing Cross-Border Data Flows: International Trade Agreements and Their Limits” (Laws 2022, 11(4), 63; https://doi.org/10.3390/laws11040063)  is selected as a title story of the ESCI & Scopus indexed journal Laws.

She is the author of the book China's Television Regulation and Media Policy (2016 hardback& 2018 softback) published by the Rutledge.

She holds several advisory roles including the Multi-Stakeholder Steering Group(MSG) Member of China Internet Governance Forum (China IGF) and Multi-Stakeholder Steering Group (MSG) Member of Asian Pacific Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF).

Dr. Chin received her D.Phil. Degree from the University of Westminster, having completed an M.A in Transnational Communication and Global Media from Goldsmiths College, University of London and a BSc (Hons) Degree in Computer Science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Prior to joining the Beijing Normal University, she worked in the Department of Media and Communication at the Xi‘an Jiaotong-Liverpool University,  the Hong Kong Baptist University, and the Faculty of Law at the Oxford University and the University of Nottingham.

Qualifications：

Ph.D., University of Westminster

M.A. in Transnational Communication and Global Media,  Goldsmiths College, University of London

B.Sc.(Hons). in Computer Science,  Chinese University of Hong Kong

Experience：

2020 - Present     Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University

2017-2020          Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communication, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

2012 -2017          Research Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University

2010- 2012          Nottingham Advance Research Fellow, School of Law，University of Nottingham

2007 –2010         Shell Fellow in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford

2005 –2007         Research Fellow, Communication and Media Research Institute, University of Westminster

Affiliate Position：

2022-        Associate Fellow, Oxford Global Society

Professional Service：

Multi-Stakeholder Steering Group(MSG) Member, China Internet Governance Forum (China IGF)

Multi-Stakeholder Steering Group (MSG) Member, Asian Pacific Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF);

Outreach and Partnership Committee Chair, Global Network of Internet Governance Academics (Giganet).

Vice-chair of the Public Media Policies (PMP) Working Group, International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR);

Reserach Interests：

Internet Governance

Media and Communication Policy

Regulation and Law

Globalisation

Teaching Interests：

Internet Governance

Digital Law and Ethics

Courses Taught：

Cyberspace Governance

Publications：

Journal Papers

Chin, Yik-Chan, and Jingwu Zhao. 2022. Governing Cross-Border Data Flows: International Trade Agreements and Their Limits. Laws, 11: 63.  https:// doi.org/10.3390/laws11040063, (ESSCI & Scopus Indexed) 

Chin, Yik Chan, Park, Ahran, & Li, Ke (2022). A comparative study on false information governance in Chinese and American social media platforms. Policy& Internet, 14, 263–283. https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.301. (SSCI Indexed)

Muller, Milton & Yik Chan Chin (2022) Editorial: Platform governance by competing systems of political economy: The United States and China. Policy& Internet, 14, 240-242.  https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.306. (SSCI Indexed)

Yik Chan Chin (2021) Cyberspace "Sovereignty Issues" Disputes, Evolution and Future in the Second Half of 2020, China Information Security, 12:85-89. 钱忆亲 (2020) 2020年下半年网络空间“主权问题“争议、演变与未来，中国信息安全，12. 85-89.

Alessandro D’Arma, Minna Aslama Horowitz, Yik Chan Chin (2020) Editorial: Advocating for Public Service Media: Scholarship and Praxis, Interactions, 11(2):129-133.  https://doi.org/10.1386/iscc_00014_2

Chin, Yik Chan (2018) The Legitimation of Media Regulation in China. Chinese Political Science Review. 3, 172–194. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41111-018-0099-x (ESSCI & Scopus Indexed)

Yik Chan Chin & Changfeng Chen (2017) Internet governance: an exploration of an integrated approach. Global Media Journal, Volume 4, Issue 2, Page 4-31. DOI：10.16602/j.gmj.20170012  钱忆亲&陈昌凤(2017)互联网治理：一种综合路径的探索. 全球传媒学刊，第4卷，第2期， 4-31页.

Changfeng Chen & Yik Chan Chin (2017) Editorial: Internet governance: an exploration of an integrated approach. Global Media Journal, Volume 4, Issue 2, Page 4-31.

Yik Chan Chin (2015) Constitutional rights and truth and fair comment defences in Chinese right to reputation lawsuits. Media and Arts Law Review, 20:422-452.

https://ssrn.com/abstract=2790750

Yik Chan Chin (2014) Privilege and Public Opinion Supervision Defenses in China’s Right to Reputation Litigation, Media and Arts Law Review, 19:276-299.

https://ssrn.com/abstract=2525102

Yik Chan Chin (2013) Regulating social media, regulating life (and lives), Rhodes Journalism Review, 33.

Yik Chan Chin (2012) Public Service Broadcasting, Public Interest and Individual Rights in China, Media, Culture & Society, 34(7): 898–912. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443712452700 (SSCI Indexed)

Yik Chan Chin (2011) Policy Process, Policy Learning, and the Role of Provincial Media in China, Media, Culture and Society, Vol.33. No.2:193-210.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443710393381(SSCI Indexed)

Monograph

Yik Chan Chin (2016&2018) Television Regulation and Media Policy in China (hardback & softback). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203798751

Book Chapters

Yik Chan Chin (2023)”Rights to Data Access in the Digital Era: the Case of China”. in Minna Horowitz & Hannu Nieminen; Katja Lehtisaari; Alessandro D’Arma (eds.) Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption, Palgrave-MacMillan: London.

Yik Chan Chin (2023) Media Policy, Routledge Encyclopedia of Chinese Studies, Routledge Online.

Yik Chan Chin (2020) “Internet Governance in China: the network governance approach”. In Zhenxu Wang and Dragan Pavlicevic (eds.) Social Relations and Political Development in China: Change and Continuty in the ‘New Era’. London: Routledge, pp: 134-153. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003032151-8/internet-governance-china-yik-chan-chin

Yik Chan Chin (2013) “Policy Process, Policy Learning, and the Role of Provincial Media in China”. In. Michael Kean and Wanning Sun (eds.) Chinese Media. London: Routledge.

Yik Chan Chin and Matthew Johnson (2012) “Public Service: New Paradigms of Policy, and Reform in China”. In. Gregory Ferrell Lowe and Jeanette Steemers (eds.) Regaining the Initiative for Public Service Media: RIPE@2011 Reader, NORDICOM. Pp.149-166. https://ssrn.com/abstract=2790751

Conference Papers：

Chin, Yik Chan and Chen, Changfeng (2017) Internet Governance: Exploration of Power Relationship. Proceeding of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network Annual Symposium, December 2017. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3107239.

Projects＆Grants：

Principal Investigator, 2019， Blue Book Major Issues Research and Support Services， Policy and Regulation Bureau of the Cyberspace Administration of China,   “2019 International Internet Media Development Report“

Co-investigator, 2018-2023, Major project, the National Social Science Foundation of China in 2018, “research on information values in the intelligent age (Project number: 18ZDA307)”

Co-investigator, 2018-2020, Humanities and Social Science Research Youth Fund, the Ministry of Education of China, “Sino-US Conflicts and Countermeasures in the Global Internet Governance”

Principal Investigator， 2018 - 2021， Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Research Development Fund (RDF), “Big Data Ethics in China’s Social Media Sector”

Principal Investigator，2016-2017， Hong Kong Baptist University, Faculty Research Grants (FRG), “Social Media in the People’s Republic China: the policy and regulatory perspective”

Principal Investigator，2015-2017， Hong Kong Research Grant Council, General Research Fund (GRF)，“Social Media in China: the network governance perspective”

Principal Investigator， 2010-2012， Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Research Grants on “Researching Law in Society in China: The interplay between the law and media in defamation litigation (1992-2009)”

Application-Author, European Commission, 2010-2012，Project Grants on “Protecting the media through the law”　

Principal Investigator， 2009-2011， British Academy Research Grants on “Chinese Broadcasting Policymaking in Transition (2009-2010): Actors, Structure and Process”